Trump Feb. 29,2020 Press Conference: US Expands Iran Travel Restrictions Due to Coronavirus Outbreak, Risk ‘Remains Low’

Epoch Times ^ | 02/29/2020 | BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV

[SeekAndFind]

The United States has expanded travel restrictions on Iran to bar entry to foreign nationals who have recently visited the Middle Eastern nation, Vice President Mike Pence announced on Feb. 29.

President Donald Trump also authorized the State Department to raise the advisory levels for South Korea and Italy to Level 4, the highest level travel risk assessment. The advisory calls on Americans to not travel to the two nations. Trump also said he is considering closing the U.S. border with Mexico to guard against the spread of the virus.

Trump and Pence spoke at the White House on Feb. 29 shortly after news of the first coronavirus death in the United States was confirmed by officials in Washington State. The patient was a woman in her 50s at high medical risk, Trump told reporters.

Pence, who Trump assigned to lead the nation’s response to the virus, met with officials at the White House on Feb. 29 for more than two hours. Pence said officials presented Trump with a range of options.

The vice president said the risk to Americans from coronavirus “remains low” in part because the Trump administration took “unprecedented action” at the early stages of the outbreak, including imposing travel restrictions on China.

“We want to lower the amount of travel to and from the most impacted areas,” said Alex Azar, the secretary of health and human services. “This is a basic containment strategy.”

Trump cautioned the media and politicians to not incite a panic due to the outbreak.

The outbreak of the new virus in Iran has been dramatic—the head of Iran’s task force to stop the illness, known as COVID-19, was seen coughing, sweating, and wheezing across televised interviews before acknowledging he was infected.

[databoss]

Where did these cases come from???

[MuttTheHoople]

Oooh, darn. I was wanting to check out the chicks on spring break.

[ncalburt]

Ban all flights from Korea and Italy too .
A asymptomatic Korean rolled back from her homeland and
exposed thousand on her travels and died here .
And No One will stop the Korean flights now ?
Are they insane .
Stop the Flights .
This BS warnings are meaningless pr nonsense .
Care about American public not the Koreans.

[DoughtyOne]

Over the last 48 to 72 hours, 21 more nations have reported their first case.

I found it odd that all these little bergs found their first case within this
short window after a month of this virus circling the planet.

These new nations represent around 25-33% of the total of all nations now
reporting.

They’re little bergs of a nation too. Strange.

Last 48 hours:

Azerbaijan
Belarus
Denmark
Estonia
Iceland
Lithuania
Mexico
Monaco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
North Ireland
Qatar
San Martine

Here are the ones if you extend it out to 72 hours.

Brazil
Georgia
Greece
North Macedonia
Norway
Pakistan
Romania

That’s 21 out of the 61 nations reporting...

...all finding their first case in the last 48 to 72 hours.

[sheehan]

Need to shut down all flights from Chyna and South Korea now.

close the border between British Columbia and WA State now (huge ChiCom community cross the border everyday).

[sauropod]

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[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[clueless_expert]

From cdc.gov:

CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 32 million flu illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 18,000 deaths from flu.

Here we are with several weeks of flu season left and flu is widespread. If we can’t stop the flu, how can we be so confident we will stop covfefe-19?

C_E

[Does so]

“Where did these cases come from???”

Paid for by Fusion-GPS?